Re: [Elecraft] EFHW clarification

Guess I missed that in your post, sorry. Any conductor of any length will radiate, resonant or not ... provided you can get your TX to feed power into it. In all cases, the far end of the conductor is an open circuit [High E, low I, High Z] The impedance at the feed end will be a complex

Re: [Elecraft] EFHW clarification

The low current in the counterpoise or ground system is the main advantage of an EFHW over a random wire. (A random wire "close" to a half wave will have a similar radiation pattern, but much higher ground system current.) The feedpoint impedance of the EFHW can be 1500 to 5000 Ohms. With a

Re: [Elecraft] EFHW clarification

t: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 4:14 PM Subject: [Elecraft] EFHW clarification Thanks for the replies so far. Just to clarify-I plan to use the built in auto tuners in my KX2 and 3, so hopefully they can handle the job. I already have a good 9:1 transformer which should work. The prim

[Elecraft] EFHW clarification

Thanks for the replies so far. Just to clarify-I plan to use the built in auto tuners in my KX2 and 3, so hopefully they can handle the job. I already have a good 9:1 transformer which should work. The primary question is the advantage to the EFHW as opposed to a true random length (not a